Dr. Enrico Ille

Dr. Enrico Ille

Research Fellow

Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft in Afrika
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 2207
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 37032
Fax: +49 341 97 - 37048

Abstract

Enrico Ille is Academic Staff Member at the Institute of African Studies at Leipzig University and a member of the Law, Organisation, Science and Technology (LOST) Research Network. He worked as Consultant Researcher on gold mining in Rift Valley Institute's X-Border project and as Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFID-funded project "The urban land nexus and inclusive urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and Khartoum" of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex). He was previously Urgent Anthropology Fellow for the British Museum and the Royal Anthropological Institute with a project on socio-ecological history of Kerma in northern Sudan. He currently writes his habilitation on political ecology in Sudan and co-chairs the working group "Plants and politics" at the LeipzigLab.

Professional career

  • since 01/2024
    Co-leader of the working group "Plants and politics", LeipzigLab, Leipzig University
  • since 09/2020
    Academic staff, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University
  • 04/2019 - 04/2021
    Project lead of research on “Gold mining in and beyond Sudan’s border areas” in frame of the DFID-funded "Researching Border Conflicts Through Local Networks" programme with the Rift Valley Institute (Nairobi, London) in cooperation with the Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales au Soudan (CEDEJ, Khartoum)
  • 01/2019 - 03/2020
    Post-doctoral researcher in the DFID-funded project "The urban land nexus and inclusive urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and Khartoum" of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex) in cooperation with the University of Khartoum and the Ministry of Urban Planning, Sudan
  • 11/2018 - 12/2018
    Research contract “Sudan/Economic Aspects”, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
  • 07/2016 - 12/2017
    Urgent Anthropology Fellow, British Museum (Ancient Egypt and Sudan) and Royal Anthropological Institute, London; Project: “Date palm production and socio-economic changes along the Nile in Northern Sudan”
  • 01/2016 - 06/2016
    Fundraising and Reporting Officer at the Organization for Voluntary Humanitarian Assistance (ASSIST), Khartoum, Sudan
  • 04/2015 - 10/2015
    Reviewer and copy-editor of livelihood studies by regional universities in frame of FAO’s Sudan Food Security Policy and Strategy Capacity Building programme (2013-2016)
  • 01/2015 - 12/2015
    Working contract for “An annotated bibliography of social research on the Nuba Mountains”, Chr. Michelsen Institute Bergen
  • 01/2015 - 12/2015
    Guest editor of the Ahfad Journal (Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman)
  • 10/2013 - 09/2014
    Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Master programme “Gender and Governance” at the Regional Institute for Gender, Diversity, Peace, and Rights (RIGDPR), Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan
  • 04/2013 - 08/2013
    Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Germany
  • 01/2009 - 06/2012
    PhD Researcher, Collaborative Research Centre 586 “Difference and Integration”, Project D9: “Market institutions in the relations of nomadic and sedentary people in South Kordofan, Sudan”, Prof. Richard Rottenburg, University of Halle
  • 11/2008 - 04/2009
    Data processor for EC-funded Sudan Productive Capacity Recovery Programme (SPCRP) – Model Projects
  • 01/2007 - 12/2007
    Working contract (Ethnographic report: “Historical narratives and territorial claims. The case of Tira Mandi, South Kordofan, Sudan“), Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle
  • 10/2004 - 12/2006
    Student Assistant, Collaborative Research Centre 586 “Difference and Integration”, Project D9: “Land and water rights, and the relation of nomadic and sedentary people in South Kordofan“, Prof. Rottenburg, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle
  • 07/2001 - 12/2019
    Co-partner of the publishing company Ille & Riemer GbR

Education

  • 01/2008 - 12/2008
    Scholarship holder for PhD research, German National Academic Foundation
  • 01/2007 - 12/2012
    PhD studies Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Thesis: “Projections, plans and projects. Development as the extension of organizing principles and its consequences in the rural Nuba Mountains, Sudan“
  • 10/2005 - 03/2006
    Scholarship holder for MA research, German Academic Exchange Service, MA thesis: “Shaybun und Shawabna – Historische Narrative um einen ungewissen Ort und eine ungewisse Gruppe in den Nuba Mountains, Sudan“
  • 10/2001 - 12/2006
    Magister Artium of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Musicology, University of Leipzig / University of Halle
  • Module "Culture and technology: Mapping"

    SS2023, Institute for African Studies, Leipzig University

  • Lecture and seminar "Methoden in den Afrikawissenschaften", Bachelor

    SS 2021-2023, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

  • Exercise "Wirtschaft in Afrika - Zwischen Mikro- und Makroperspektive", Bachelor

    SS 2021-2023, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

  • Exercise "Global economic entanglements in Africa", Bachelor

    WS 2020/21 - 2023/24, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

  • Remedial course, Bachelor

    WS 2020/21 - 2023/24, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

  • Exercise "Professional fields of African Studies", Bachelor

    WS 2020/21 - 2023/24, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

  • Course "Academic Writing and Publishing"

    SS 2018, National Research Center, Khartoum, Sudan

  • Seminar "Identity and Multiculturalism"

    SS 2014, Master Gender and Governance, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan

  • Seminar "Global and Regional Governance"

    WS 2013/14, Master Gender and Governance, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan

  • Seminar "Research Methodologies"

    WS 2013/14, Master Gender and Governance, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan

  • Seminar "Sudan Studies"

    SS 2013, Master Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle

  • Seminar "Introduction to Economic Anthropology"

    SS 2013, Bachelor Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle; SS 2010, Bachelor Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle

  • Seminar "Introduction to Political and Legal Anthropology"

    WS 2011/12, Bachelor Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle

  • Seminar "Organizational Change and Development"

    SS 2011, Bachelor Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle

Research fields

Anthropology, African studies

Specializations

Sudan

Contact for media inquiries

Phone: +49 341 97 - 37032
Fax: +49 341 97 - 37048